Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death:

Bible References

Were

Hebrews 7:8
And in the one case, men here [on earth, that is, the Levites] who die, collect a tenth [from the rest of the Israelites], but there [i.e., in the case of Melchizedek] it is collected by someone about whom it is declared [by Scripture] that he continues to live.